Veritas has a 1024 path length restriction...

You should be getting a backup code 6.... Error code 99 is a summary
error saying nothing got done...

You should be doing fulls on both since the incremental may not be picking
up the long path name....

-Rudy

 From http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/236221.htm:

Symptom:
Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) backup jobs exit with status 6. There 
is 
an NDMP <path length> limitation of 1024 characters, so path and filename 
lengths greater than this on NDMP backups will cause an error in the bptm log.
Exact Error Message:

Exit Status Code 6: The backup failed to back up the requested files

Solution:

In the bptm log an error will be shown:

<32> bpfsmap: put_imgdbrec: internal error 2 inumber 5942788 <path length>=1046

This means that a file name being specified for backup is too long. There is an 
NDMP <path length> limitation of 1024 characters, so path and filename lengths 
greater than this on NDMP backups will cause this error.


Paul Gimpelev wrote:
> Configuration: NBU 4.5, MP3, EMC Celerra, code 5.18.xx latest.
> 
> I am running into as strange problem - if I mount the same filesystem on path
> /export/home/home4 both full and incremental backups run fine, but if I mount
> it on /export/home/home4_bcv then full backups runs, but incrementa fails with
> status 99.  It seems to be related exclusively to the length of the
> mountpoint/backup path.  Has anyone ran into this before?  Any good 
> suggestions
> aside from shortening the path?  Veritas has not responded so far :-(
> 
> paulg
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